Everything about Chapter 124 is summed up in the monthly
September 2011 Newsletter
(below the list of advertisers)
| Representative | Web site |
Business
card |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Abbott | Belden Electronics Division |  |
| Michael Bach WB6FFC |
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| Al Jason | Harris Broadcast (Radio) |  |
| Tom Franklin | Norcom |  |
| Matt Granard | Westlake Electronic Supply |  |
| Joe Harrington | Harrington Tower Services |  |
| Gray Haertig | Gray Frierson Haertig & Associates |  |
| Bryan Jones | Broadcast Electronics |  |
| Matt Leland | Dielectric |  |
| John Pierce | Tektronix |  |
| Robert Rogers | Broadcast Tower Services |  |
| Larry Sayer | Rohde & Schwarz |  |
| Debbie Storz | Econco |  |
| Ellis Terry | Nautel |  |
| Bob Trimble N7IYI |
RF Specialties |  |
| Michael Troje | Continental Electronics |  |
| Brian Walker | Professional Video & Tape, Inc. |  |
Snail mail:
SBE Chapter 124
PO Box 1727
Portland, OR 97207-1727
You may use excerpts if attributed to the original
source and
"Water Cooled Newsletter" SBE Chapter 124, Portland, OR
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| WHEN: |
Tuesday September 13th, Noon |
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| WHERE: | Buffalo Gap Saloon &
Eatery 6835 SW Macadam (at California) Portland 503-244-7111 |
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| WHAT: |
Advanced Broadcast Solutions is pleased to present a presentation on Using IP
Networks for HD Video Transport - Presentation by John McCluskey with T-VIPS.
In this program they will review the market fundamentals, do an initial overview of IP Technology, including the how, the why, and the what, and review the protocols and industry standards for Video transport over IP. They'll also provide an overview of Forward Error Correction (FEC) for IP networks, why and when to consider it, as well as the cost/benefits of using it. Then in summary, they will review actual customer case studies and how they utilize IP networks to meet there contribution and distribution needs. You can learn more at www.t-vips.com Dave Spraker, the new ABS Oregon rep will be on hand as well. Lunch will be provided.
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Almost all the presentations are made at the meetings of all three Oregon SBE Chapters.
The Eugene meeting is usually the day after the Portland meeting.
The Medford meeting is usually two days after the Portland meeting.
The Portland meetings are held at lunchtime on the second Tuesday of every month. Everyone is welcome to attend the meetings. When you get to the Buffalo Gap, go in the SW California Street-side door, turn left, and go upstairs. We have the whole upper floor, which has its own bathrooms. Be sure to get there early, because after the Gap's parking lot fills up you'll be searching the narrow streets for blocks around to find a place to park. For more information on Chapter 124 in Portland/Vancouver/Salem, contact Chapter Chair Ev Helm, e-mail chairman at sbe124 dot org, or call him at 503-977-7752. For a map and directions see http://www.sbe124.org/SBE124_maps.html .
Advanced Broadcast Solutions brought an informative session (and lunch!) from Grass Valley.
Program description:
“While service oriented architecture (SOA) has been a common structural approach in the computer industry for quite a while, it has only recently entered the broadcast conversation.”
Professional Video and Tape, Inc. will bring Ensemble Designs.
November: Cobalt Digital
December: Annual Holiday Party
January '12: Joe Falcone of JVC will bring their latest products.
by Kent Randles K7YXZ CBRE
Senior Engineer, Entercom-Portland
Co-Chair, Portland/Vancouver LAECC
Chapter Secretary/Newsletter Editor
the_secretary at sbe124 dot org
Go here.
From Chris Murray, Chair, Oregon Emergency Communications Committee
The question asked was … “Will the EAN test scheduled for November 9th substitute the required monthly test for that month”
My immediate answer was “I do not know, it's not in Part 11, has not been done, I will ask.”
Today I got the answer from Bonnie Gay the EAS person at the FCC and verified by Tom Beers policy chief at the F.C.C. The answer was, yes it’s not in the rules but …“Yes the November 9th EAN will be in lieu of the required monthly test for November.”
The scheduled RMT date was the 3rd of November and the back-up date is November 9th. We could schedule November 15th for the make-up day, in the event the EAN for some reason goes south. I do not believe it will. We will all gather our results on November 10th and go from there.
Tektronix and Advanced Broadcast Solutions invite you to secure your seat for their VideoInsight Seminar, Thursday, September 22nd, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
During this free seminar, you will learn innovative solutions and current tips and tricks on tackling today’s video test challenges. Lunch will be provided. . Topics addressed will include:
Digital Television Monitoring
- Color and Gamut Measurement
- Closed Caption Issues
- Ancillary Data Analysis
- Audio/Video Delay
- Capture of Transient Problems; Status and Error Logging
- Aspect Ratio Conversion Issues (SD>HD>SD), AFD
3D Technology Discussion and Parameter Measurements
- 3D Workflow
- Testing at Various Points of 3D Content Delivery
Digital Audio: Loudness Measurement and CALM Act
- ITU-R BS.1770 Loudness, DialNorm Discussion
- Audio/Video Delay
- Loudness Standards
- Loudness Measurement Method
- LKFS in MPEG
MPEG and Video Quality
- Video Quality System, Quality of Experience
- MPEG Analysis
- File-based Content
Location:
Tektronix World Headquarters
14150 SW. Karl Braun Dr
Beaverton, OR 97077
If you have any questions, need more information or would like to invite more than 3 people, feel free to contact: Michael Brett, Video Sales Coordinator - Americas, 503-627-4720, Video-Insight-Seminars at tektronix dot com.
From Bill Johnstone, CEO of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters
The OAB Fall Conference is September 15th – 16th – 17th
Riverhouse Hotel and Convention Center, Bend
Have you registered yet?
Have you reserved your room at the Riverhouse Hotel, or the Shilo Inn & Suites, or the Bend Inn & Suites? (The cut-off date for the OAB room block rate has been extended until Friday, August 26th for all three hotels.)
To make your reservations at the three designated hotels be sure to identify that you are with the Oregon Association of Broadcasters or OAB.
GOLF: The Golf Tournament will be held on Thursday, September 15th at the River’s Edge Golf Course. Depending on the number of golfers who play we’ll either have a 10AM Shot-gun start, or we’ll have Tee-times starting at 9:30AM. The Golf Tournament registration is the third page of the Registration Form.
AGENDA: The Agenda includes everything from “Political Advertising 101” with Dominic Monahan, Managing Partner, Luvaas Cobb, and Legal Counsel to the OAB, as we get ready for the 2012 political advertising season; to “How to Help Car Dealers Grow Their Topline” with a panel of respected Northwest auto dealers; presentations and keynote addresses by Kelly Cole, NAB Sr. VP Government Relations to update us on the state of the industry from Washington, DC’s perspective; Keynote by Michael J. Parks, Editor Emeritus of Marples Letter with an entertaining view of the Northwest economy entitled “Great Disappointment? Sustainable Recovery: A regional economic update”; to “A Look at Automotive Media and Marketing in a Recovering Economy” with Arianne A. Walker, Director, Media & Marketing Research at J.D. Powers & Associates; to “Make the i-Devices Work for You” with John Mielke who will demonstrate how the iPhone, the iPad, the iThis and the iThat are easily adapted to the benefit of your station and your audience; and Fall Conference Banquet keynote Alex Stone, Correspondent, ABC News Radio, who will touch on many things from what we should be looking for in the upcoming election to how covering the election has changed to how TV is producing more news with less money to fair reporting during an election and so much more including some of the cool new gadgets stations and networks are using to get on the air during the political season.
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE: The “Awards for Excellence” will be presented on Saturday morning the 17th at breakfast starting at 9:00 a.m. After the awards presentations there will be a (yet to be hired) speaker, and then we’ll be concluded for 2011.
QUESTIONS: If you have any questions about the Fall Conference please don’t hesitate to call or email the OAB office and let us help. 503- 443-2299 / 800-843-6221 / theoab at theoab dot org.
This is from Pete Davies KL1MW, former Engineer for Comcast SportsNet NW
Kent, I thought you and the folks back home would enjoy some photos of my work at FOB Camp Leatherneck Afghanistan. The tandem larger dishes were setup before I got here but the smaller dish is all mine. I had that thing put together, up and running in about 8 hours. This was an "emergency dish install" or so they say. All three of these provide data/VoIP/VTC services in support of the LOGCAP IV task order for the US military. The 2 tandem dishes are 10 Mb/s upload and 10 Mb/s download. Riverbed Steelhead ethernet traffic shapers or accelerators are used to manage and shape the ethernet traffic inbound and outbound. the smaller dish is only a 1532x1532, and all three are TDMA circuts.
enjoy!
Click here to go to the SBE124 Facebook page. You'll want to "like" it.
There are 14 FM HD signals (twelve with HD2, and one of those has an HD3) and usually three AM HD signals on the air in the Portland market. Go here for a complete list.
There are now over 1000 multicast stations and 100 HD Radios to choose from. See the buyer's guide here.
The Society of Broadcast Engineers has
announced the opening of the SBE University; a series of on-line, on-demand
courses designed to bring expert instruction on a variety of technical
radio and television topics to broadcast engineers at an affordable price.
Beat the recession with these all-new, affordable "nuts and bolts" courses available to take anytime at your convenience. No travel, hotel or other costs to eat up your limited training budget, these courses are developed by experts for the SBE.
The Society of Broadcast Engineers offers numerous levels and types of certifications for broadcast technicians and engineers.
Operator Level Certifications
Broadcast Networking Certification
Engineering Level Certifications
Specialist Certifications
Exams are given several times a year locally, and annually at the NAB Convention in Las Vegas.
Exam schedule:
| Exam Date/Window | Location | Application Deadline |
| October 23 - 2 PM | AES Convention -NYC | pre-registration and on site registration |
| November 4-14 | Local Chapters | September 16 |
| February 3-13, 2012 | Local Chapers | December 31 |
| April 17, 2012 | NAB convention | March 23, 2012 |
| June 1-11, 2012 | Local Chapters | April 13, 2012 |
| August 3-13, 2012 | Local Chapters | June 1, 2012 |
| November 2-12, 2012 | Local Chapters | September 14, 2012 |
For information, e-mail our Chapter Certification Chair, Eric Margeson certification at sbe124 dot org.
The new SBE CertPreview will be a download from the SBE website or you may choose to have the CD mailed to you. The program will be installed onto your computer and will be machine specific. The program will be available for Windows and Mac. Each sample test contains 100-150 questions typical of those found on an actual exam. You will take the exam in its entirety and be able to mark and review questions before scoring your sample exam. By scoring the exam, you will be given a percentage and a breakdown of categories contained within the exam. This will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. You will also be able to revisit questions that you answered wrong.
Cost is: $29 for the download (per test)
or $33 for the CD (per test)
add $3 per CD for shipping/handling
* Multiple tests can be purchased on one CD
Click here for the fillable order form
From Jack Roland KEØVH
The net meets on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month (except in August) at 10 AM Pacific Time. The SBE IRLP HAMnet is based in Denver using the NØPQV Rocky Mountain Radio League repeater, IRLP node #3350, And national and worldwide via the IRLP reflector 9615. All of this information can also be referenced at http://www.sbe.org/sections/IRLP.php.
See http://www.eham.net/articles/25478 .
To find a node in your area you can go to the www.irlp.net website, click on the "Node Info" on the left, then click on the "List of nodes and frequencies" in the middle of the page. In a moment a full list of node numbers, cities, countries and the like will appear and do a page search for you city. When the node is highlighted click on the node number and that repeater information will appear, usually with contact information of the trustee/repeater owner. When you have done this and are able to access your node (usually at 4 digit code on the local repeater unless it is a closed club system), you will want to connect to the Denver Reflector Node #9615.
If you need further help contact me at KEØVH at qsl dot net .
[A good Portland node is 3420, N7PIR at 440.450 with a PL of 103.5 Hz, now located on the Skyline Tower. SBE 124 <1 GHz frequency coordinator Mike Steiner KD6LVP is the trustee. See http://www.qsl.net/n7pir .]
For southwestern Washington and ALL of Oregon: >1 GHz call Ev Helm W7EEH at 503-977-7752, fax 503 293-4877, or e-mail microwave at sbe124.org; <1 GHz call Mike Steiner KD6LVP at 503-235-8517, fax 503-231-4624, or e-mail under1gig at sbe124.org.
You can browse the database at http://www.sbe124.org/part_74/.
If you are not IN the database, you are NOT coordinated.
Event notices are sent to members of the sbe-pdx e-mail list. To sign up, go to http://lists.radiolists.net/mailman/listinfo/sbe-pdx .
At noon on the second Tuesday of every month, broadcast engineers in Portland meet at The Buffalo Gap Saloon & Eatery, 6835 SW Macadam (at SW California), 503-244-7111. Enter on the California side, take the first left, and go up the stairs. We have the entire 2nd floor and our own bathrooms. Get there early, because after the Gap's lot fills up, you'll be searching the narrow streets for blocks around to find a place to park. For more information on the restaurant see http://www.thebuffalogap.com . For directions, go to http://www.sbe124.org/SBE124_maps.html. For chapter information call Chapter 124 Chair Ev Helm at 503-977-7752, or e-mail chairman at sbe124 dot org. As usual, anyone, member or not, is welcome to attend.
